Monthly Archives: October 2015

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Dear Kinfolk                                                                                                                                                                                                                     Augusta I. Metcalfe, 1881-1971, was known as the “Sagebrush Artist”, she rendered paintings that depicted her first-hand knowledge of ranch life at the same time that the Anderson, Wilson and Guernsey families lived nearby in Oklahoma Territory.  She lived on the 640 acres her father homestead on the Washita … Continue reading →

  Dear Kinfolk, While looking through some old family letters, I found Granddad William H. “Black Bill” Anderson’s 1908 Diary.  The family was living on 160 acres along Rush Creek, about 18 miles northwest of Cheyenne, Oklahoma.  He homestead the land … Continue reading →